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WDR engagement report

@WDRaktuell - 472K followers on X

Measured over 58 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 24, 2026.

Engagement

Middle of its size range
Per follower
0.01%
of 472K followers
Per impression
0.469%
10K views on a typical post
Reach
2.22%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
49
interactions (median)
Saved
0.029%
3 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
2/day
active 60% of days
Peak time
12:00 UTC
Friday

A typical post picks up 49 interactions against 472K followers, an engagement rate of 0.01%. Measured over 58 original posts, its engagement rate beats 34% of 20,444 tracked accounts of a similar size, which puts it in the middle of its size range rather than at either end. Posts are seen about 10K times each, and 0.469% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 2.22% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 60% of days. Most posts go out around 12:00 UTC, and Friday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 58 posts sampled, 41% carry an image or video and 97% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 554 interactions, about 11x its own typical post.

Measured over 58 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 24, 2026.

Compared with accounts its own size

WDR's engagement rate beats 34% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (20,444 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 10 of 10)). A percentile is spread evenly by construction, so 50 really is the middle of that group and 90 really is its top tenth.

On engagement per impression rather than per follower it beats 29% of the same group. When those two numbers disagree, the gap is about how far its posts travel rather than how people react to them.

Where this sits in the catalog

At 0.01%, WDR sits above the 10th percentile of the 205,261 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the bottom 25% band, which runs below 0.024%.

p100.004%
p250.024%
p50 (median)0.143%
p750.678%
p902.55%
p9982.4%
Engagement rate as a share of followers, across the 205,261 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 22,894 times apart and a linear axis would flatten everything below the median into a single point.
Show the percentile table
Engagement rate percentiles
PercentileEngagement rate
10th percentile0.004%
25th percentile0.024%
50th percentile0.143%
75th percentile0.678%
90th percentile2.55%
99th percentile82.4%

This ruler is the whole measured catalog, not a size-matched group: it shows where the raw rate falls across every account we can measure, all of which are large. For a like-for-like comparison, read the size-band percentile above instead. See how the bands are built

Posting timing

This account posts most often around 12:00 UTC, and Friday is its busiest day of the week. The bars below are the catalog-wide pattern, with this account's own busiest slot marked. They do not show how this account performs at each hour: we keep one aggregate per account, not one per hour, so that measurement does not exist in our data.

Engagement by hour posted, UTCTwenty-four bars, one per UTC hour. Each bar shows how posts published in that hour compare with their own authors' median engagement. Bars above the centre line ran higher than the median, bars below ran lower. A marker flags Busiest hour: 12:00 UTC.
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Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest hour: 12:00 UTC
Show engagement by hour posted, utc as a table
Engagement by hour posted, UTC
Hour (UTC)Vs author medianPosts
00:00 UTC-1%89K
01:00 UTC-2%90K
02:00 UTC-3%88K
03:00 UTC-4%94K
04:00 UTC-5%76K
05:00 UTC-4%75K
06:00 UTC-5%86K
07:00 UTC-5%93K
08:00 UTC-4%108K
09:00 UTC-4%124K
10:00 UTC-3%129K
11:00 UTC-3%141K
12:00 UTC-3%154K
13:00 UTC-3%167K
14:00 UTC-4%173K
15:00 UTC-2%176K
16:00 UTC-3%171K
17:00 UTC-3%159K
18:00 UTC-2%149K
19:00 UTC-2%141K
20:00 UTC-1%131K
21:00 UTC0%116K
22:00 UTC-2%100K
23:00 UTC-1%90K
Engagement by day of weekSeven bars, one per weekday, Sunday first. Each bar shows how posts published on that day compare with their own authors' median engagement. Bars above the centre line ran higher than the median, bars below ran lower. A marker flags Busiest day: Friday.
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest day: Friday
Show engagement by day of week as a table
Engagement by day of week
DayVs author medianPosts
Sunday+5%393K
Monday+1%483K
Tuesday-2%520K
Wednesday-3%472K
Thursday-2%430K
Friday-3%447K
Saturday+2%393K
See what moves engagement across the whole catalogWhat counts as a good engagement rate at this size

Formats this account uses

Its own posting mix on the left, and what each of those formats does across every account we track on the right. Only formats where the effect clears our publish test appear here, so an empty row is a format we could not measure rather than one that does nothing.

This account's posting mix compared with catalog-wide effects
FormatThis accountCatalog effect95% intervalAccounts behind it
Image or video41% of posts+111%+108% to +115%34K
Outbound link97% of posts-41%-42% to -40%32K
Typical length-no effect-2% to -1%42K
  • 41% of this account's sampled posts carry an image or video. Across the catalog, posts with an image or video run 111% above the same accounts' other posts.
  • 97% of its posts carry a link off X. Across the catalog, posts with an outbound link run 41% below the same accounts' other posts, so a large share of this account's output sits in the weakest bucket we measure.
  • Its average post runs 227 characters, which falls in the 180 - 280 characters band. Across the catalog, posts of 180 to 280 characters match the same accounts' other posts almost exactly.

These are catalog-wide differences applied to this account's own posting mix, not a measurement of how each format performs for this account specifically. We keep one median per account, not one per format per account, so the second thing is not something this data can tell you.

Best tweets

  • Apr 10, 202511x their median

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  • Aug 20, 20269.2x their median

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    3449701215K viewsView on X
  • Sep 16, 20269.2x their median

    Trotz der Sperrung des EU-Luftraums für russische Flugzeuge ist am Morgen offenbar eine Regierungsmaschine aus Moskau auf dem Flughafen Köln/Bonn gelandet. https://t.co/ChP1F4clll https://t.co/bG0RmB2TfJ

    30976066204K viewsView on X
  • Sep 1, 20268.3x their median

    Nach dem Drohnenangriff in Leipzig: Bundesregierung schließt das russische Generalkonsulat in Bonn. https://t.co/NQ1luZo26h https://t.co/ooKXhWz3Rz

    3296101930K viewsView on X
  • Sep 12, 20268.2x their median

    In der Düsseldorfer Innenstadt wird heute unter dem Motto "Gegen die AfD und rechte Hetze" demonstriert. Laut Polizei ziehen mindestens 20.000 Menschen durch die Innenstadt. https://t.co/Xccumnk1lm

    329680715K viewsView on X
  • Sep 4, 20267.6x their median

    Die Polizei hat an einem weiteren Umspannwerk Abschussvorrichtungen entdeckt - diesmal in Dormagen. Die Polizei geht von einem Sabotageakt aus. Auch hier sollte möglicherweise das Stromnetz angegriffen werden. Ein Bekennerschreiben wird geprüft. https://t.co/2YzvMtdmEe https://t.co/xqND0qqA2N

    26197013103K viewsView on X
  • Oct 20, 20266.4x their median

    Eine Mitarbeiterin des Kölner Ausländeramtes soll Teil einer Schleuserbande gewesen sein. Dabei ging es um die Vermittlung von Scheinehen gegen Geld. Die Mitarbeiterin soll Papiere für Aufenthaltserlaubnisse durchgewunken haben. Sie sitzt in U-Haft. https://t.co/Hvnrzx1Ys0

    2178501221K viewsView on X
  • Oct 19, 20266.0x their median

    Geheime Aufnahmen auf dem Schlachthof Tönnies: Zu sehen sind Vorfälle, bei denen Schweine geschlagen werden oder vor der Tötung ein Fuß abgeschnitten wird. Außerdem dokumentieren sie die umstrittene CO2-Betäubung. https://t.co/Y7bJkvazKS

    17510101618K viewsView on X
  • Oct 23, 20265.5x their median

    Beim AfD-Leak sind auch zwei wichtige Mail-Konten des Landesverbands NRW betroffen: Protokolle, Mails zu Ausschlussverfahren, Mitgliederdaten - alles einsehbar. Abgleiche mit früheren WDR-Recherchen ergeben, dass die Mails vermutlich authentisch sind: https://t.co/5LvbPN0Rk7

    197640910K viewsView on X
  • Aug 22, 20265.3x their median

    Kanzler Merz besucht heute das Waldbrandgebiet in Hürtgenwald - zwei Tage nach vollständiger Löschung. Die Opposition wirft ihm Untätigkeit vor, weil er den Urlaub nicht unterbrochen hat. Timo Pleuß von der Feuerwehr Hürtgenwald schaut anders aufs Thema. https://t.co/qf7wdx4W1h https://t.co/XHjQWICmls

    2133001597K viewsView on X

Ranked by total interactions across everything we have tracked for this account, which is a longer history than the 30-day window the rates above use. The multiple compares each post to this account's own median.

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Reading these numbers

A typical post picks up 49 interactions against 472K followers, an engagement rate of 0.01%. Measured over 58 original posts, its engagement rate beats 34% of 20,444 tracked accounts of a similar size, which puts it in the middle of its size range rather than at either end. Posts are seen about 10K times each, and 0.469% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 2.22% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 60% of days. Most posts go out around 12:00 UTC, and Friday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 58 posts sampled, 41% carry an image or video and 97% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 554 interactions, about 11x its own typical post.

What is WDR's engagement rate on X?
WDR (@WDRaktuell) has an engagement rate of 0.01%, based on the median interactions across 58 original posts from the last 30 days against 471,510 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
Is that a good engagement rate?
At 0.01%, WDR sits above the 10th percentile of the 205,261 accounts in this comparison. Those comparison accounts are all large ones, because our scanning cadence is weighted towards big accounts, so this is a ranking among peers of similar scale rather than a ranking across X.
Does @WDRaktuell have real engagement?
Its engagement rate beats 34% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (20,444 accounts), which puts it in the middle of its size range group. Ranking inside a size band matters because engagement rate falls as accounts grow, so a raw rate would mostly re-measure the follower count. It is a starting point for a look at follower quality, not a verdict on it.
When does @WDRaktuell post?
Most posts go out around 12:00 UTC, and Friday is its busiest day, at roughly 2 posts per day across the measured window.

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